Jordan is a leader among Arab countries in educational spending as a percentage of GDP. Jordan's ten public universities, 18 private universities, 52 community colleges, and 50 vocational training centres house more than 140,000 students from around the globe and the Arab world, with the numbers of foreign students growing at a rate of 9% per annum.
The Jordanian government and the private sector, working with international IT initiatives, are investing considerable resources in primary and secondary education programs, elevating the ICT know-how of Jordanian graduates. Jordan has a young population, 70 percent are under the age of 30 (about 3.8 million), and these programs are creating an impressive pool of bilingual, savvy ICT graduates.